Twitter and Tesla owner Elon Musk on Friday named NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino as the CEO of Twitter, coming just hours after she announced she would be leaving the corporate media outlet.
“I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk wrote in a post on Friday. The billionaire said she “will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology.”
Earlier on Friday, Yaccarino confirmed she is departing the Comcast-owned network in a statement.
“It has been an absolute honor to be part of Comcast NBCUniversal and lead the most incredible team,” she said in the statement Friday, without saying she was joining Twitter. “We’ve transformed our company and the entire industry.”…